Ricardo Dias Marques <lists@ricmarques.net> wrote:
I just noticed that the Web archiver (Pipermail) for the "Koha-Patches" mailing list has "eaten" (deleted, cropped...) part (the second "half") of a post of mine. The post has been sent through Gmail. [...] Any ideas for why this has happened?
1. pipermail is buggy and the Mailman developers ignore even simple bugfixes (I submitted a patch years ago but the bug continues); 2. Googlemail is arguably buggy and triggers one of the pipermail bugs. I forget the exact details of the Googlemail bug, but I do remember Google seemed to argue their implementation was valid and - as I wrote - it is arguable rather than a clear-cut bug. Workarounds including replacing pipermail with lurker or one of the other systems, but there are already other archives. The real fix is to fix pipermail, but that's a big job and it doesn't seem it would ever be included in Mailman. Of course, Google's preferred solution is for everyone to use GoogleGroups, but that's absurd. I suspect the post may be intact in the mbox download, but sometimes they're not. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef) LMS developer and webmaster at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk | .... co Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | .... op